by Raising Relatives | Oct 15, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
While raising this young toddler or school-aged child in your home, you have a special opportunity to help them feel safe, loved, and strong. One of the best gifts you can give them is a secure attachment. This bond tells your grandchild (or nephew or cousin): “You...
by Raising Relatives | Oct 6, 2025 | Challenging Behaviors, Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
In this community, we value “family” as much bigger than just parents and children. This is one of the most common reasons that grandparents, aunts, uncles, and other relatives step in to help raise a child when the parents can’t. The strength of kinship care helps...
by Raising Relatives | Oct 6, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse
Making friends can be hard sometimes. For children who have experienced trauma, loss, big changes, learning differences, or prenatal substance exposure to drugs and alcohol, making friends may feel extra hard. As a grandparent or related caregiver to this child, you...
by Raising Relatives | Sep 18, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
When a parent struggles with substance use, it can shake the whole family. Often, grandparents, aunts, or uncles step in to raise the child. This is a loving and brave choice, but it is also painful. You may feel sadness, anger, or guilt as you take on this role. You...
by Raising Relatives | Sep 15, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Impacts of Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Drugs
When a child has lived through tough times, like trauma, neglect, or abuse, the adults in their life often focus on what’s “wrong” and try to fix it. We invite you to consider that there is another way to tackle the challenges and the impacts they have on your...
by Raising Relatives | Jul 22, 2025 | Healing from Trauma/Neglect/Abuse, Relationship with Child’s Parent, Working Together For the Good of the Child In Your Care
When a child in your extended family can’t live with their parents, it often falls to someone like you—a grandparent, aunt, uncle, or cousin—to step in and offer the safety, love, and stability they need. Bringing this child into your home is a powerful act of care....
